Rage Yoga Is A New Trend That Invites Participants To Do Yoga While Drinking Beer, Swearing & Listening To Rock Music

The moment we hear the term Yoga, we think of those difficult stretches and flexible bodies. Most of us practise Yoga for inner peace and a calmer mind. There are various kinds of yoga we have heard such as power yoga and hot yoga. But can you imagine doing yoga while screaming, drinking beer and listening to rock music?

Yes this is actually a new kind of yoga called Rage Yoga and its founder Lindsay Istace feels that this yoga will leave you “zen as f*ck”. While we don’t know whether this kind of yoga is beneficial or not, but this sure is an amusing and interesting way to attract people towards yoga.

If you picture yoga classes in a calm and serene environment, you would be surprised to know that Rage Yoga sessions are actually performed in the basement of a bar named Dickens in Calgary, Canada. The highlights of this yoga sessions are cuss words, swearing, laughter and heavy rock and metallic music.

A yoga practice that started as a way to become fit and vent out the anger and pain of a failed broken relationship has today become a movement with many people actually being a part of it. Lindsay was going through a bad break up and while doing yoga, she used to get angry and use foul language and eventually find peace after cursing.

So, in Rage Yoga sessions, you vent out your anger, frustration and emotions by stretching, cursing and making rude gestures (like showing middle finger), while heavy rock music plays in the background. The Rage Yoga classes are being conducted since January, on Monday and Wednesday nights.

Can you imagine drinking beer while exercising or practising yoga? Lindsay has actually incorporated drinking in her practice sessions. Her students are allowed to drink whenever they want – be it before, during or after the session. In fact, when you sign up, you get tickets for two draft pints at a discounted price.

Mixing alcohol and yoga is a very risky thing to do. If things go wrong, it can have serious health effects. But Lindsay feels that Rage Yoga has helped her deal with her own addiction and has an ameliorative effect on her students. According to her, when people get into different sequences of yoga, they start drinking slowly.

While some yoga enthusiasts don’t consider Lindsay’s practice as yoga, she doesn’t get bothered by it. Interestingly, Lindsay plans to launch monthly online classes for people to access it from across the globe.

Her sessions currently cost around $12 (Rs. 800 approx.) for an hour including ticket for a beer. Lindsay is a contortionist, fire-eater and juggler who calls herself a full time entertainer. While we don’t promote this kind of yoga and meditation sessions, but if you get to drink and vent out anger openly while stretching your muscles, nothing like it. We can only wish for such a concept to be introduced in India soon and then we will show the world how it’s done. After all, can anyone curse better than us?